Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday March 12, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Lou Dates Mary
Season 7, episode 23 W: David Lloyd D: Jay Sandrich With John Reilly (Jake). Fed up with the men she has been dating, Mary decides that Lou Grant has the qualities she has been looking for in a man, and asks Lou to take her out.
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| [ABC 8:00] Blansky's Beauties [Reg]: Nancy's Cover-Up
Season 1, episode 4 W: Robert Keats, Steve Zacharias D: Jerry Paris Nancy threatens to quit when she is ordered to have her girls perform topless.
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: The Boat
Season 6, episode 19 W: Hannah Shearer D: Georg Fenady With William Boyett (Chief Battalion 14), Zitto Kazann (Alvie), Richard Bakalyan (Charlie), Ted Gehring (Clinton). The paramedic crew thinks they have the perfect solution to their recreation needs when one of them has to sell his sleek jet boat.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Shrinking Violence
Season 5, episode 23 W: Sy Rosen D: Peter Bonerz With Bob Ridgely (Marvin), Marsha Kramer (Receptionist), Florida Friebus (Mrs. Bakerman), Oliver Clark (Mr. Herd). Bob offers sound psychological advice to his wife and his therapy group on how to handle anger, then proceeds to blow up.
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| [ABC 8:30] Fish [Reg]: Fish's Job
Season 1, episode 5 W: Barbara Corday, Barbara Avedon D: Dennis Steinmetz With Richard Schaal (Dunnagan), Wendy Schaal (Peggy). Fish contemplates a second job as an insurance agent while Mike is trying to fend off the amorous advances of a neighborhood girl and placate her angry father.
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| [CBS 9:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Archie's Dog Day Afternoon
Season 7, episode 25 W: Milt Josefsberg, Mort Lachman D: Paul Bogart With Allan Melvin (Barney Hefner), William Hunt (Dr. Rushton), Tracy Bogart (Receptionist), Vanda Barra (Woman). Archie must spend his afternoon at the vet when he accidentally runs over Barney's dog with his cab.
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| [ABC 9:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Long Walk Down A Short Dirt Road
Season 2, episode 23 W: Edward J. Lakso D: George McCowan With Lynn Anderson (Sue Ann Grainger), Joshua Bryant (Jerry Tabor), Dick Haynes (Cal Claybourne), Scatman Crothers (Fireball). A pretty country singer is plagued by phone calls from a raspy-voiced stranger demanding money, and when the police are called in he takes out his anger on innocent people.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Mean Streets (1973)
W: Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin D: Martin Scorsese With Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Victor Argo. A young man intercedes with a boyhood friend to help forestall the collection of a debt by some small-time hoods on the "mean streets" of Little Italy.
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| [CBS 9:30] Alice [Reg]: Mel's Cup
Season 1, episode 22 W: Harvey Bullock, Roy Kammerman D: Norman Abbott With Tom Mahoney (Travis), Billy Sands (Larry). Alice contributes an old trophy of Mel's to a church rummage sale, then finds out it's an irreplaceable memento.
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| [CBS 10:00] Where Do We Go From Here? [special]
W: Digby Wolfe D: Tony Charmoli With Sergio Aragones, Electric Light Orchestra. Musical comedy special starring Shirley MacLaine with a comedy dance group, taking a apeculative look forward at the next 200 years.
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| [ABC 10:00] Dog And Cat [Reg]: Dead Dog And Cat
Season 1, episode 2 J.Z. and Ramsey hunt a rapist whose victims are all prominent women.
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